About 475,000 immigrants without legal status live in New Jersey, according to 2018 figures by the Pew Research Center. Workers who do not have legal status pay more than $11.7 billion in state and local taxes, according to a 2017 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit think tank. Read more
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